In Russia, Krebs states that employers are utilizing a new recruitment tool to lure programmers, offering base salaries ranging anywhere from $2,000 to $5,000 a month. How exactly are they doing it?

The old fashioned way: banner ads. He states:

"Many of the ads highlight job openings for coders who are skilled in devising custom 'crypters,' programs designed to change the appearance of known malware so that it goes undetected by anti-virus software. Anti-virus signatures are based on snippets of code found within known malware samples, and crypters can try to help hide or obfuscate the code."

Essentially, this does away with the old stigma of the hacker-as-broody-teenager locked in his bedroom, and replaces it with something much more frightening: malware gangs with fully realized infrastructures. They're investing in research and development like traditional companies, and using sophisticated recruitment tools like ads to attract talent.